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ANTICANCER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does anticancer mean? 

ANTICANCER (adjective)
  The adjective ANTICANCER has 1 sense:

1. used in the treatment of cancerplay

  Familiarity information: ANTICANCER used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


ANTICANCER (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Used in the treatment of cancer

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Synonyms:

anticancer; antineoplastic; antitumor; antitumour

Context example:

an antineoplastic effect

Pertainym:

cancer (any malignant growth or tumor caused by abnormal and uncontrolled cell division; it may spread to other parts of the body through the lymphatic system or the blood stream)


 Context examples 


The human multidrug resistance 1 (MDR1) gene responds to environmental stress including various anticancer agents.

(Multidrug Resistance Gene, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

The human multidrug resistance 1 (MDR1) gene responds to environmental stress, including various anticancer agents.

(Multidrug Resistance Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

Mung bean may have anticancer effects.

(Mung bean, NCI Dictionary)

A substance that is being studied as an anticancer drug in the treatment of non-small cell lung cancer.

(N-acetyldinaline, NCI Dictionary)

This allele, which encodes NADPH-dependent FMN-and FAD-containing oxidoreductase protein, is putatively involved in the metabolic activation of chemicals, such as anticancer drugs, via one-electron reduction.

(NDOR1 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Nanoparticle paclitaxel is a form of the anticancer drug paclitaxel and may cause fewer side effects than paclitaxel.

(Nanoparticle paclitaxel, NCI Dictionary)

Continuous or frequent treatment with low doses of anticancer drugs, often given with other methods of therapy.

(Metronomic Chemotherapy, NCI Dictionary)

It may also help some anticancer drugs work better.

(Methoxyamine hydrochloride, NCI Dictionary)

Also called anticancer antibiotic and antineoplastic antibiotic.

(Antitumor antibiotic, NCI Dictionary)

Researchers have identified a mechanism in mice by which anticancer immune responses are inhibited within the lungs, a common site of metastasis for many cancers.

(Oxygen can impair cancer immunotherapy in mice, NIH)



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